gulf course by antigovernment protests and an outcry over death sentences for twenty one. troops closing in on the key town of two. islamist insurgents as questions mount over the true motive of the ongoing intervention. david cameron promises to let the british people vote on whether the u.k. should exit the e.u. but only if his party wins the next election.

and over the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly on our with me rule research. has spread across egypt following deadly clashes in the cities of port and cairo we're now looking at a total of forty one people have been killed over the just the past two days alone a violent anti government rallies raging across the capital at least thirty two people died in ports following death sentences given to some of those who took part in fatal football riots last year a local reporter bell true at the latest from cairo. here in the capitol there are clashes raging between protesters and security forces on the corner on the key areas near government buildings as it looks to tear gas in the air here in downtown

cairo rocks have also been exchanged security have presence around government buildings as the focus of the anger here for protesters is very much against morsi ministration they say that so the president is not going to just admit he can't run the country and he hasn't listened to their demands to the unrest here is still continuing very tense didn't put saeed as well as the situation in egypt really descends into a bit of a crisis president ahmed most accounts of his travel plans yesterday and met with his national defense council to discuss the deepening crisis across the country and one of the upshot of this meeting was that they may consider an emergency status we don't know the details of what that would actually mean but of course here in egypt they lived under most state of emergency for thirty years the mubarak which led to protests being banned and censorship being legalized something people would really be very angry with and want to avoid to get to see if the situation continues on the streets of cairo imports i need and we see further deaths and they may resort to emergency status but here we don't actually know what's going on quite yet of

course a lot of i'm going towards the president this started just at the end of last year when he pushed through what was very seen as an unpopular constitution drafted by an islamist dominated constituent somebody people also say that he has not made any of the changes that were called for during the journey if i can believe in two years ago so he's really lost quite a lot of legitimacy on the streets at the moment we're seeing a very rested and divided egypt and. the editor of the could online newspaper the people of egypt have just grown increasingly fed up with the muslim brotherhood . we will do for him to be a good chance. at the last. for most of the people who are out in the streets to the people in egypt now that. religion and politics should be mixed clearly and some.

would use. religion to get the support of the people and once we are at war be with in a very very different view from what the been promising and that's. one of the reasons of the anger you are seeing to the industry to egypt and americans who want to insure and secure their interests in egypt right now neither the united states nor morsi himself much say in what's happening to the people of egypt who are back in the streets. of the city and. i let on attention out of out of mali where french led troops have retaken the key town of it's their first major advance in an effort to drive out the al qaeda linked militants from the country's north and the joint contingent carried out airstrikes and also took control of the airport and a bridge over the river as artie's maria for national now reports french

intervention could be aimed at securing vast amounts of natural resources in the west african nation. the french have died headlining today military operation in mali but the discussion is still ongoing as to exactly why the western nation has put boots on african soil again costing money and people's lives. official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of france's defense minister has declared total request of mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they will to monopolize access to the city to the resources this is the there with seeing this effect the complete specifically in relations view of the states i know we're seeing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of

the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past gold and especially iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african reigning and. french companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence the rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets while all this is neocolonialism but with a simpler role france is far from the only nation to have and defend its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official decolonization protracted regimes from rebels like into booty of the central african republic or fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by its own economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different radical de carlo is asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also

strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east britain and france have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for somebody to say. them because their army is not equipped to train to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists misery had that is the philosopher in the form of tunisia ambassador to us his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come use resources but then it's logical that locals profit is world those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way is wild

a kind of slavery mali among the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been going to paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies the body able to administer french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and former french colonies are independent someone that alone no idea is all just part of history and that history may be repeating. an option r t from paris. and in the meantime france's stepped up its domestic security following the start of the mali military campaign this over fears of terrorist attacks in the run up to the intervention of the country's defense minister said extremists occupying the west african nation are a threat to the whole of europe the middle east expert tariq ali says the danger they pose to europe has been well seriously overestimated. i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group obama is already said that the walk the

phrase war against terrorism is a dated and the united states will abandon it and sort of ironic that the french are now taking it up the french intervention which is many people in the south applaud it because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking revenge as we saw in algeria and incidentally the role of the french played in algeria bice helping in encouraging the government to stop an election midway has also left an impact on that country still is no doubt it will be stabilized and you realize well. well it's great to have you with us here on r.t. this is their weekly and it was this week that the world's financial and political elite wrapped up their annual jolly to the swiss resort of davos optimistically predicting that europe will walk out of the crisis this year as it is kitty pilgrim

reports the rich and powerful who gathered at the world economic forum certainly offered lots of promises but no clear strategies. double's twenty thirty is now the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair at my ring the beauty of the swiss as you can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved well first we had russian prime minister dmitry medvedev he spoke about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you know we've heard that before that was something. we also had british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the only topic people wanted to press him on here was the father he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seventy the business community here they

felt that that was a parameter and now it's a man and that it would do the economy no good or ready to challenge and in a fragile situation with dismal growth figures just released europe was of course in the spotlight as predicted we had a european central bank president mario draghi he said the spending cuts are necessary austerity is the way forward and german chancellor angela merkel she agreed with him she reiterated that point and this really comes the same way that we've had process ongoing in greece we've had a backlash in germany as well as spain's unemployment for the youth coming out at sixty percent we also have the prayers from the arab world they came together valiant to improve the future for the people in the region but no clear strategy on on how to do that so you know i can tell you there's been a lot of talking a lot of purging a lot of promise saying with no clear cut policies by have

a real fairing that the interesting conversations happened behind closed doors. r.t. doubles. well david cameron's pledge to hold an in out referendum in the u.k. certainly shook up things of the davos meeting the u.k. prime minister said the british will quote have their say on europe if indeed his conservative party wins the next election but as artie's and your farm reports the uncertainty over britain's e.u. membership is being criticized at home and abroad. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can win the next election in twenty fifty basically he wants more pounds return from brussels to westminster and will try to renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech

and dines at the place many of the euro skeptics within his tory party there are many dieties u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away tension investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but other e.u. members are less sympathetic denmark says the e.u. is not. where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens speaking said the e.u. would simply become a mess so while david cameron has to solve any internal squabbles within the party to take a place in the euro skeptics it also appears that he is driving a wedge between britain and other e.u. member states and. london. and of course he is coming here live from moscow our prime minister for the third time benjamin netanyahu is rightwing broke wins the general election however the face of former coalition to back his plans to

tackle what he sees as the growing iranian nuclear threat and more on that just around the corner here in our three. hundred private of privacy the f.b.i. refuses to reveal how or how many americans it's spying on ultimately causing a fair amount of paranoia that's also coming up after a break. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all day. top stories of the week here on r.t. i'm rory sushi in moscow our prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have come out the winner of israel's general election this week but he has suffered a major setback for the two main blocks were left close to deadlock in the new

parliament meaning netanyahu has a struggle to build a stable government during the election campaign he pledged to put iran's nuclear program at the top of the international agenda ramzi barghouti is the editor of the palestine chronicle dot com and he spoke to my colleague mattress or that iran ultimately will be used by netanyahu to divert attention from the last couple of us there is no peace process there hasn't been any peace process for years and most likely there would not be peace process under netanyahu or under the mentality by which israel is governed in fact i think there's too much emphasis on netanyahu while in reality netanyahu is a reflection or an expression of a growing tendency of israel this is the that is either oblivious to the peace process as in the center this or that if this and of course the ultra nationalists and the and the ultra orthodox virally the political impasse over iran it doesn't look likely to go away soon do you think there's an increased chance of israel

striking tehran's nuclear program given the apparent outcome of this election. it's really difficult to tell at this point because it seems that israelis are growing the becoming more aware of the. economy of their own country netanyahu might use the iran iran scenario in order for him to. distract perhaps from the problems that are soon to emerge to his new government to guard this of the look in the shape of the government of jewish settlements in the west bank and other major issue for netanyahu he said they won't be. all during his. actor and director of nimrod came a rather well known for its prank videos decided to take a rather an orthodox look at the ongoing land expansion. my name is me more than israeli citizen living here among. you one housing crisis of it all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also leave among our

allies and i think i can get them much better do the wise. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up to one flat is one million shekels is photos for that in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the us almost all the political parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talks. east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big one investor understand is the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills mall outposts. and no

onyx ation occupation two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man leaving london i want to cash in on my jewishness and i be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any known jewish parts because. not from here many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future for israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scam and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the u.k. . you see. there's. this regime too there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like

international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. this is the most disputed area you never noticed it just because people told us. but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even construct and i was coming up and. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy. i pay so much money for rent in london in one in london and here in one and in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so beautiful all of us is ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new

area being built opens if you want i just called this real estate it's called how doll free they sell all the flats in this part of town and they say no it's a city so it will never be evacuated today selling more and more. of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish label. me. i want to see an. agent to get to the all the legalities. of. you selling your house by any chance in. my life.

well the film's director nimrod came out buying in the disputed west bank areas can be a good and potentially very profitable deal. nobody really goes in get in there mindset of the religious ones and the not only just want to just come there for the deal and i mean they don't even think about politics for them it's just buying and selling and like they told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe but if people are going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for them because if you buy flowed over there you get good discounts if you've got many kids

even more discos you don't even have to be religious easily states like actually difficult build another. which is the settler jewish only west bank cities and if you just go there and you buy a flat you can sell it to like a jewish americans some of the people i talked to never going to give up their house bill from like the ninety's the heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and the told me that that jordan is also the kind of part of the jewish state just cool and like the other ones are just normally just people who used to live in that you know these early election is all about social justice kind of the whole. the whole like housing prices so pretty much if you want to live chip in this world that's the only option i've had to society live from moscow and americans are literally being kept in the dark about how and why they are being followed by the nation's security agency

a civil liberties group in the united states asked the f.b.i. to spell out what techniques it's using when it tracks its citizens and the justice department did reply by sending hundreds of completely blacked out documents journalism professor christopher chambers says the u.s. is ultimately violating the rights of its people. the state of privacy for american citizens these days is quite tenuous and quite frightening because we are being assaulted in america on two levels one from our government which is collecting information which is spying on american citizens. apparently without any predicate or basic probable cause or specific facts on the other hand you have corporations spying on american citizens to find out what we buy when we buy it how much money we spend how much well who is in our family what our friends buy basically to take money from us so on one hand you have people taking freedom of the other here you have people taking money so it's all based on a lack of privacy so it's

a very scary situation here in america now web entrepreneur and internet activist kim dot com rather well known for its now banned followers sharing service he says he's at the center of a political witch hunt the shutting down of his mega upload site one of the most popular on the web at the time became a landmark case in the persecution of internet activists he told r.t. he believes he's being hunted from well every part of the world i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because they went in and was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying and i mean the whole picture when you

look at it showed us that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that. well you can watch of the interview with kim dotcom in full at r.t. dot com but the mega upload creator is not the only victim of the campaign against internet pirates secrecy crusader aaron swartz took his own life to escape being hounded. and activist and all of us are hit by cracking the web side of the u.s. sentencing commission blaming the american justice system for being too harsh and driving aaron swartz to suicide more on that on our website. also online rush upgrades and indian giants submarine with cruise missiles and hands the right back to the indian navy. take a pause in the weekly now and get into some other global news in brief for the r.t. world update starting with afghanistan where bomb has killed at least eight

policemen and injured some more in the southern province of kandahar. exploded the bomb next to a police packed truck just as officers finished defusing another explosive device it was the third such attack in less than twenty four hours which in total of claimed the lives of twenty police including an a local antiterrorism chief or forces assisting nato forces have become a frequent target for militants. the first of six patriot missile batteries deployed by turkey in me by nato in turkey and now operational the dutch system is on standby in the city of adana with five more units set to be in place by the end of the month. the move will help defend turkey from possible rockets fired from inside its neighbor syria but many believe it's actual aim is to create a no fly zone to help the syrian rebels hold their ground against government troops

. in washington thousands rallied in support of stricter gun controls on the march was motivated by the connecticut elementary school massacre that left twenty children and six adults dead. president obama has unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades including a ban on military style assault weapons and background checks proposals have divided the nation with about a half of americans insisting it's their right to bear arms without restrictions. just a moment when i see technology update delving a rather deep into a world that is well beyond the reach of our five senses a software break here we're not seeing. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together

a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but back may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and you horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i know rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord beck no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for.